Edsurge

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

“The problems tends to arise when kids go to school because the deeper they get in, the more they start to lose interest,” Robinson said, pointing to the United States’ large student dropout percentage as evidence that school—as a system—is failing students. In 2016, Mary Jo was named to the Forbes "30 Under 30" list in education.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 12, 2021

has just under 9 million available STEM jobs ; 70 percent of them in IT or computers. has just under 9 million available STEM jobs ; 70 percent of them in IT or computers. After the year we’ve had, this is welcome news. However, one major obstacle blocking this potential progress is our nation’s persistent skills gap.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 10, 2016

NSLA states summer learning loss “ is one of the most significant causes of the achievement gap between lower and higher income youth and one of the strongest contributors to the high school dropout rate. For many young people, the summer ‘opportunity gap’ contributes to gaps in achievement, employment and college and career success.”

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Edsurge

APRIL 28, 2017

In the United States alone, jobs website Indeed reports that reduced productivity stemming from open positions accounted for $160 billion of lost revenue in 2014. high-profile dropouts and the rise of the so-called “ anti-credential.” These unfilled positions carry a tremendous economic cost for businesses. At almost $1.3

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EdNews Daily

AUGUST 29, 2016

National and local reporting, both on air and online is helping communities understand the challenges and community-driven solutions associated with the dropout crisis. ET – TED TALKS “Education Revolution”.

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Edsurge

MAY 22, 2023

But then we know that there are those who continue to have difficulties, and those difficulties really stem into a variety of areas. You can think about these concentric circles kind of stemming out from the site. Those are some of the short-term impacts on students. Cooney : Often there’s some fear, too.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 1, 2018

We have STEM careers, we have trades and everything in between,” said Ed Hidalgo, the chief innovation and engagement officer in the district and co-developer of the World of Work initiative. But Hidalgo points to the statistics: good jobs for adults with a high school diploma alone or for high school dropouts are disappearing. “We

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Edsurge

MARCH 12, 2018

P-TECH partnered with IBM back in 2011 to design a six-year high school where students receive associate's degrees in STEM majors and sometimes job offers from IBM by the time they graduate. However, problems with completion do not primarily stem from dropouts, which were recorded at 2 percent in 2016.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

The results of this learning model speak for themselves, with the district rising in state education rankings, as well as experiencing fewer high school dropout rates. Next page: How many projects are focused on the classroom?).

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 15, 2013

Join me Wednesday, April 17th, for a live and interactive FutureofEducation.com conversation with Elliot Washor and Charles Mojkowski on their new book, Leaving to Learn : How Out-of-School Learning Increases Student Engagement and Reduces Dropout Rates. From the book''s description :) "It''s an alarming fact: in the U.S.,

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

Math courses are “the most significant barrier to degree completion in both STEM and non-STEM fields,” the authors concluded. Algebra I is the air you breathe to be in STEM,” said Nathan Levenson, a former CEO of a crane-manufacturing company and later a school superintendent in Massachusetts. Here’s how it all adds up.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 12, 2023

Whittenberg, a public elementary school in downtown Greenville, South Carolina, that focuses on science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) in its curriculum. Whittenberg Elementary School of Engineering, a school focused on STEM curriculum in Greenville, South Carolina. Credit: Ariel Gilreath/The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 15, 2023

The confusion stems from the study design. Dropout rates were the same for students in both the remedial and the “corequisite” courses, as the college plus extra help version is often called. “We Going straight to college courses helped more students earn college credits in English but that didn’t help them get through college.

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EdNews Daily

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Famous billionaire college dropouts like Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, and the late Steve Jobs are prominent examples of successes who never completed undergraduate degrees. Although we may make much of college dropout successes, remember this: The biggest Internet Age success of all — Google — was started within a graduate program, as a Ph.D.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 12, 2023

They only back companies led by college dropouts and people who never studied in higher ed. This debate about the value of college, and growing doubts, may stem from bigger questions that go back to the founding of this country, and about the American Dream that anyone can pull themselves up by their bootstraps.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2019

For an absurd example, if dropouts tended to take classes on Thursdays in their first semester at college, but students who completed their degrees didn’t, then you might worry about current students who are currently taking classes on Thursdays. The dropout problem got a lot worse in the 1990s when more people started attending college.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2019

Among the many other problems dragging down Puerto Rico’s stagnant economy, made worse by hurricanes Irma and Maria in 2017, is a huge high school dropout rate and, among those students who do manage to graduate, a comparatively low trajectory to college — especially college on the mainland — and a high dropout rate there, too.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2018

A study found an 18-percent difference between dropout rates for low-income students with high arts participation (4 percent drop out) and those with less arts involvement (22 percent). Yet, funding for the arts currently shows no sign of rebounding from cutbacks stemming from George W.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 20, 2022

In her program, educators learn how traumatic experiences affect kids’ brain development and how to identify the behaviors that stem from such trauma. Studies show not only is it ineffective at improving students’ future behavior, it can also do the opposite.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

DECEMBER 23, 2023

This understanding is crucial for designing curricula and teaching strategies that cater to diverse learning needs, aiming to reduce dropout rates and enhance academic success, particularly in challenging fields like science. IJ STEM Ed , 6 (33). link] Cordi, M. Schreiner, T., & Rasch, B. Is prior knowledge essential?

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 8, 2018

The inexperience of modern-day faculty with helping students who have non-academic problems stems in part from the evolution of American higher education, said Adrianna Kezar, a professor of higher education at the University of Southern California who studies this. Sign up here for our higher-education newsletter.

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GoConqr

OCTOBER 5, 2015

Dropout rates increase, test and project scores dip, and – worst of all – learning becomes synonymous with boredom. One of the criticisms that’s been aimed at the use of technology in schools, however, is that it is being used solely to prepare users to enter the tech workforce by corralling them into STEM-related subjects.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 1, 2020

The increase in dropouts from secondary education amongst refugees is alarming, whereby less than 2% of Syrian refugees complete their secondary education. This program will help students catch up on the education they have missed – on and off since October 2019 – through interactive and creative online tools and pedagogies.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 30, 2018

Only 6 percent of students from low-income families work in lucrative fields such as science, technology, engineering or math (STEM); business or healthcare, according to the report. Fourteen percent of higher-income working students have jobs in these fields.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 19, 2016

OER awareness (or lack thereof) stems from misunderstanding of how OERs work, and the complete ignorance of its very existence. administration can see increased revenue by decreasing the student dropout rate, and receiving additional performance-based funding from the state.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Related: When the punishment is the same as the crime: Suspended for missing class To many observers, Tameka’s troubles stem from Atlanta’s rapid gentrification. But she should act fast, the social worker urged, or the department might have to take action against her for “educational neglect.”

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

The district decided to focus on math because “research has shown that middle school and high school math … that’s where the greatest learning loss has been,” said Dr. Faith Freeman, the director of STEM at Guilford County Schools, and the head of their tutoring initiative. Kids were falling behind in math before the pandemic.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 6, 2022

The university is known for its Meyerhoff Scholars Program , designed to prepare students from underrepresented backgrounds for STEM careers. So administrators added more sections of a general college preparedness course to help students develop time management and study skills.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 20, 2019

High school dropouts are much more likely to be unemployed and earn thousands of dollars less per year than people with higher levels of education. Busing, stemming from a 50-year desegregation order that was just lifted last year, helped to integrate some Avoyelles schools. Photo: Cheryl Gerber for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Fellows receive monthly stipends that start at $450 and rise each year, up to $700, in an attempt to combat steep post-secondary dropout rates — 33 percent of black college students drop out after one year of college, often because of financial shortfalls.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2018

In McDowell, educators aren’t reacting to problems, they’re seeking preemptive solutions, trying to stem the tide of generational poverty and trauma. “And those tend to be home visits in reaction to real problems that have come up.”. More than half the children and nearly 40 percent of the county’s population live in poverty.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 23, 2018

Related: Universities and colleges struggle to stem big drops in enrollment. It’s a blessing being bestowed on more and more applicants to college, according to admission consultants and observers of the largely secretive admission process.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

There are gifted dropouts. But despite the high demand for Olmsted, administrators said that they didn’t need to significantly expand gifted education, beyond adding the program at Eve, because Buffalo has plenty of other academically stimulating options, including STEM and Montessori programs.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 30, 2019

But while New York’s efforts to stem summer melt are part of a broader trend, intensive coaching programs like CARA’s are still relatively rare, Castleman said, and “there’s a lot of promise to this approach.”.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Unfortunately, she added, teachers often don’t know how to address this — a problem that stems from teaching preparation programs. “In In every setting I’ve worked in, special ed has been the red-headed stepchild. I wish that special education services were more respected and people knew how much special education teachers do.”.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2019

He’s promised to add ACT prep, more Advanced Placement courses, and maybe even a STEM program. McKneely said he’s also bringing in a better curriculum that’s more aligned to the state tests. The students are definitely trying to do the best that they can.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 7, 2018

Related: An urban charter school achieves a fivefold increase in the percentage of its black and Latino graduates who major in STEM. Terr’Nique Delair sits in English class at George Washington Carver High School. Photo: Cheryl Gerber for The Hechinger Report.

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